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Paddling Perfection Sea Bear Waitoa

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Price: $5290.00 ( inc. GST )

Picture yourself.....paddling solo off a beautiful yet hostile coastline. The bright mid-day sunshine has faded with the afternoon's brooding clouded sky. The wind and waves are steadily increasing, and you still have some miles to paddle before reaching your landing place and haven for the night. This is Sea Bear country.

Its unmatched stability and handling in rough water provides the stable platform for you despite the challenging conditions, allowing you to get on with paddling, and enjoy the challenge. Settled comfortably in your tent, you can't help but reflect on your day, with a feeling of satisfaction and appreciation for the thought and experience that has gone into this pedigree blue water tourer's design.

Features of the Paddling Perfection Sea Bear

• Unequalled rough water handling and stability
• Excellent performance in surf with proven hull design
• Highest quality manufacturing
• Totally reliable engineering of construction and fittings
• Easily driven hull shape for fast cruising speed
• Large storage capacity
• Easy loading through large water-tight hatches
• Fits larger paddlers with generous cockpit length for legs
• Easy adjusting, highly robust footrest and rudder assemblies
• Deck shape makes Sea Bears easy to eskimo roll and minimises water left in the cockpit after self rescues

Further features

• All steering, footrest, and backrest adjustments are easily accessible when sitting in the normal paddling position
• Fully retractable rudder with separate up and down lines, locks down to give positive steering in the roughest seas
• Special grab lines fitted for use in the unlikely event of a capsize
• Unique foot pedal steering provides solid bracing points for feet, easiest adjustment of any system, and comfort even when paddling in bare feet
• Composite construction gives strength and light weight
• The black wear strip on the keel protects against scratches and gouges
• Neoprene hatch covers ensure your equipment stays dry
• Elastic deck lines provide easy storage for maps, drink bottles, pumps and spare paddles
• Moulded fibreglass hatch lids protect hatch covers from sunlight and wave implosion

Colours: Typically there is one or two of these kayaks in stock at any given time. The colours of these kayaks varies, so upon ordering we'll send you an email with your options - the ones that are currently in stock, or you may have one made for you in 6-8 weeks. Colours for this later option are: Red, Orange, Golden Yellow, Canary Yellow, Rainforest Green, Royal Blue, Black and White. Choose two of these colours for the blend on the deck - hulls are white. The most common combinations are Red-Yellow, Orange-Yellow, and Red-Orange. Other colours are available for $75 per colour - please provide a colour sample for accuracy. Typically, the joining lines are your lower deck colour choice, and cockpit rim colour is your choice of the top of the deck. The aluminium oxide wear strip is beneath the white gelcoat of the hull - while you can't see it from the outside, you'd need a diamond disk sander to remove it - this durability will help your kayak last for many, many years.

The SeaBear Waitoa has been modernised and gives the paddler of today modern comforts on the proven hull design. The SeaBear remains the classic touring kayak but has combined this with today's high standards in deck design.

A team of experienced peddlers and designers have worked on the SeaBear and are pleased to introduce the modernised version. Ron Augustin made the redesigned model; as experienced Paddling Perfection kayakers know: Ron is the original designer of the SeaBear.

The hull design has remained as it was; the SeaBear has proven to be the natural choice for expedition kayakers and kayak enthusiast alike.